Put the words “civil rights” next to “education,” and your brain probably conjures up images in black and white: Stoic black teenagers walking past screaming, angry white people outside of Little…
Views of the wall of separation near the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Richard Gray EMPICS Entertainment. Press Association Images. All rights reserved.The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in one…
Elvina Beck, the 31-year-old co-founder of PodShare, has an entrepreneur’s knack for tech-savvy euphemisms—the kind of linguistic flourishes that can take something ordinary, even unappealing, and rebrand it into an…
Interception of migrants on the Moroccan/Spain border. (Photo: Beating Borders, 2014)"We are in Morocco Here, many Blacks have lost their lives Here, it's Boukhalef The Moroccans call us azzia They…
“When I heard I was coming to Hungary again, I was afraid,” says Yusra Mardini. The 19-year-old Syrian refugee spent time living on the streets of Budapest two summers ago en…
Nariman El-Mofty AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Edward Said dedicated his career to the theorising of Orientalism and to proving a point: the grouping of everyone non-European into the devalued category…
Hospital in Cienfuegos, Cuba. AP Photo/Franklin Reyes. All rights reserved. In recent decades, progress in Latin American societies has been shifting the focus of public debate from the fight against…
Among the passengers crammed into the rattling white van traversing Lebanon’s northern edge were a pair of young Syrian refugees. As the van slowed to a stop at the first…
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. #YoSoy132 Aguascalientes, 7 July 2012. Photo courtesy of the author.Today we cannot…
Disney World may be an American institution, but with one-day adult tickets costing on average between $105 and $201 (depending on ticket and time of year), millions of American families are…
Mikhail Gorbachev takes part on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, November 2014. Bernd…
Last year millennials finally surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America. Now, as Generation Y ages, they’ve become more than one-third of the U.S. workforce. Soon they’ll be the…